SCENIC SELF DRIVE – NEW ZEALAND

Depending on your preferred travel choice, you will either be met and privately transferred, or self-drive to your accommodation.
Kia Ora! Welcome to Auckland, this is New Zealand’s largest city, set between two harbours with gentle sandy shores on the east and black sand, wild surf beaches on the west. Home to sheltered, sparkling blue waters dotted with beautiful emerald islands, we recommend getting out on the water when you are here.
Optional Attraction: Sky Tower - Total Tower without Transfers
(Flight should be Arrive before 1400 HRS)
The Sky Tower (Maori: Pourewa Rangi) is a telecommunications and observation tower in Auckland, New Zealand. Located at the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets within the city's CBD, it is 328 metres (1,076 ft) tall, as measured from ground level to the top of the mast, making it the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere and the 28th tallest tower in the world. It has become an iconic landmark in Auckland's skyline due to its height and design.
Optional Attraction: Kelly Tarltons Entry / Admission without Transfers
(Flight should be Arrive before 1400 HRS)
Kelly Tarlton’s SEA LIFE Aquarium at the Auckland waterfront. Discover the underwater magic of the Southern Ocean at more than 30 exhibits and nine themed zones. You can get up close to playful king and gentoo penguins at the Antarctic Encounter, see displays of jellyfish and stingrays, and stroll through the shark tunnel.
Overnight: Auckland
Meals: NA

After breakfast check-out from the hotel and proceed to journey through the rolling green hills of Waitomo and enjoy a tour through an underground wonderland of caves decorated with galaxies of glowworms. Continue to Matamata for a charming tour of unique, character Hobbit homes, gardens and the watering hole just as you see in the movies. Finishing off a visually fulfilling day, continue Rotorua, a bubbling and steaming destination like nowhere else.
Auckland-Waitomo: 195km (approx 2hrs, 30mins)
Waitomo-Matamata: 102km (approx 1hr, 20mins)
Matamata-Rotorua: 67km (approx 55mins)
Overnight: Rotorua
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast proceed to enjoy Rotorua’s fascinating geothermal landscape with its unique steam vents, spouting geysers and bubbling mud pool set alongside freshwater lakes and majestic native forests. Visit Waimangu Volcanic Valley, the world’s youngest geothermal valley! Choose your adventure through a self-guided walk. Head to Redwoods Treewalk Nightlights, this is a new and unique Kiwi design-led tourism experience found nowhere else in the world and encompasses 34 lanterns designed by the world-acclaimed designer and sustainability champion, David Trubridge.
Overnight: Rotorua
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast check-out from the hotel and depart on your domestic flight to Christchurch.
Handover the car at Rotorua airport / Auckland airport as per flight (Please Note: Domestic Airfare is not included in the final pricing). Flight Time Rotorua to Christchurch is approx. 2 hours
After arriving at Christchurch, complete your car rental formalities & pick-up the car from Airport Car Depo, & process to your accommodation with self-drive car.
Christchurch is set between the deep blue Pacific Ocean and the mighty snow-capped Southern Alps. This is a vibrant, ever-changing city with inner city parks and gardens delightfully interwoven by the meandering Avon River.
Overnight: Christchurch
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast check-out from hotel and depart for the Canterbury Plains, a fertile patchwork made with every shade of green, through the spectacular scenery of Arthurs Pass National Park and on to the West Coast. New Zealand’s rugged West Coast is a wild and untamed place known for its rivers, rainforests, glaciers and geological treasures. Here, mighty rivers of solid white ice, relics of the world’s last ice-age, tumble down the rocky valleys.
Christchurch - Glacier Region: 240-380km (approx 3.5-5hrs)
Overnight: Glacier Region
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, enjoy the temperate climate at a low altitude which makes Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers among the most convenient to visit in the world. Steep valleys bear scars from where glaciers have retreated and advanced over millennia and here, the ice age is still underway.
Today is a free day to add your preferred activity. Make a visit to Punakaki's Pancake Rocks or for an absolute bucket list experience, take to the air on a scenic flight with a glacier landing and a thrilling hike across the icy wonderland.
Overnight: Glacier Region
Meals: Breakfast

Travel through wilderness towns, waterfalls and river scenery on today’s scenic journey to Queenstown. We recommend stopping for a break at Wanaka’s wonderful world of weirdness at Puzzling World or stretching your legs, at Makarora’s Blue Pools on the way to Glacier Country. After a big day out, reflect on memories of a lifetime on your return to Queenstown.
Overnight: Queenstown
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, proceed to enjoy Skyline Queenstown - Gondola with Luge rid (03 Luge Rode).
Rest of the day at Leisure to enjoy magnificent vistas and majestic mountains dominate this compact alpine resort town and with such an expansive natural physical environment it is not surprising that Queenstown has been described as the Adventure Capital of the World. Today is a free day to add some of the endless optional activities on offer.
Optional Attraction: Shotover Jet Boating
Take a jet boat ride on the Shotover River during an extreme ride, and make use of transport from Queenstown. Experience adrenaline-fueled fun as the jet boat skims the water’s surface at high speed and fishtails into 360-degree spins. Hold on tight as the captain maneuvers the jet boat over rapids and through narrow canyons during one heart-pounding adventure you won’t soon forget.
Overnight: Queenstown
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast check-out from the hotel and proceed to Fiordland, one of the world’s last great wildernesses. Today's stunning journey takes you past mirror lakes, spectacular waterfalls and water-sculpted rocks. Venture into Milford Sound, a New Zealand treasure carved by ice age glaciers and famously described as the eighth wonder of the world. After a big day out, reflect on memories of a lifetime on your return to Queenstown.
Overnight: Queenstown
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch

After breakfast check-out from the hotel and proceed to a scenic wonderland with golden tussocks, snow-capped mountains and turquoise lakes. Hug the shores of beautiful Lake Pukaki to a rugged land of ice and rock, home to Aoraki Mt Cook, New Zealand’s highest mountain.
Overnight: Lake Tekapo
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, proceed for check out formalities and head to Christchurch. Enroute make sure to stop for a while at Lake Tekapo where the ‘Church of the Good Shepherd’ takes pride of the place against the backdrop of a vivid blue glacier-fed lake. Then continue north east where braided rivers and familiar plains will signal your arrival back into Christchurch.
Overnight: Christchurch
Meals: Breakfast

Arrangements conclude today with a departure transfer or return of your rental car.